Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woeman /

Yuson, Alfred A.

Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woeman / Alfred A. Yuson. - Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2004. - xiii, 75 p. 23 cm.

Alfred A. Yuson's trademark macho wordplay delights once more in a collection that bites, but tenderly. Intoxicated by women, his personae map a graceful arc from tormented adoration, to lovelorn sparring, to the serene recognition of the woman as reflection, as mirror. Hairtrigger Loves telescopes the history of a heart into fifty poems that cast a solemn eye on loves-contemplated, labored, savored, lost-and achieves, in the woe-man's discovery of the power to speak plainly, a sort of rueful majesty. -Vince Groyon. Hairtrigger Loves, bringing together Alfred A. Yuson's musings on love, and the loss thereof, from four decades of dealing in native nectar and trading in mermaids, shows us a master wordsmith in great shape, at work and wondrous wordplay. -Jose F. Lacaba.

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PS 9993 .Y7 / .H127 2004